Problem with Firefox

[Dennis_Knutson]

Ever since last night, all I see in Firefox 4 is the image below. Anyone else?

[smercurio_fc]

This has been an ongoing issue from time to time with the forums (see http://forums.ni.com/t5/Feedback-on-NI-Discussion-Forums/Who-s-been-messing-with-the-formatting/td-p... ). As far as I can tell, the best guess is that the style sheet isn't being downloaded. Whether that's a client issue or a server issue is anybody's guess.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Thanks. Somehow I had missed that thread. It seems to be working now though I just got a 'processing request' progress bar.

[smercurio_fc]

I've also been seeing that off and on over the past few days. Looks like server/network problems.

[Laura F.]

I bet these issues are all related. I've reported this to Lithium again.

Thanks,

Laura

[GregSands]

Same formatting issues here, Firefox 4 (and also 3.6) on Windows Vista.  It's not slow to load, just looks bad!  Things are fine with Chrome and IE9 though.

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Saw a few of those earlier this week using IE7 on XP. Have seen sporadically before many months ago too.

-AK2DM

[Laura F.]

I've been told that the issue with missing formatting is most likely related to Firefox 4.  Firefox 4 and IE 9 are currently being validated by Lithium and with the next small forum upgrade, they will be fully supported.  I expect that upgrade to be at the end of April / beginning of May.  For now, there's not much I can do about specific issues in those browsers.  I haven't tried Firefox 4 yet myself.

Do you always see that missing formatting issue? Or is it occasional?  I know in IE 9 there is supposed to be a compatibility mode that you can turn on that makes most issues go away.  A quick search for Firefox 4 compatibility turns up a number of other sites having issues with it but no real work around that I can find.

Sorry that I don't have better news.  If anyone is seeing the missing formatting issue in other browsers, please let me know!

Thanks,

Laura

[GregSands]

I've just fixed this error on my Firefox 4 by resetting the UserAgent string that is used to identify the browser.  Easiest way to do this is to go to about:config and creating the string preference general.useragent.override with a blank string.  If that doesn't work, the user agent for Firefox 4 appears to be "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101" so give that a go.  Would be interested to see if this works for others too.

What appeared to be happening before was that the forum code was requesting a CSS file that didn't exist:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://ni.i.lithium.com/skins/HEAD/32B709F80C716E1DFF4FFA721BEF1E7E/ni-1991929918.css">

Failed to load source for: http://ni.i.lithium.com/skins/HEAD/32B709F80C716E1DFF4FFA721BEF1E7E/ni-1991929918.css

</link>

However I'm not sure what was originally in my UserAgent string that caused that to be requested, sorry!

Cheers ~ Greg

[nathand]

I've been seeing this for the past 2 weeks or so with Firefox 3.6.16 and Firefox 4, on several different computers.  Is it working for anyone else with those browsers, without modifying the browser configuration?  Any idea when it might be fixed?